Privacy, Intimacy and Surveillance

Abstract:

We all have a sense of privacy and intimacy in this world. It is intuitive that we should be concerned with the protection of our privacy. But what does privacy really mean to creatures such as ourselves who seem dependent on defining their existence through various cultural norms of society and social interactions? And what are the potential implications of intruding on someone's private life? This paper will examine and detail exactly what it means to have privacy in terms of personal development. Explicit to privacy, the importance of personal intimacy will also be analyzed and defined. These definitions will then be expanded by determining their relations to one another. By understanding the relation and importance of privacy and intimacy an account and result of surveillance is given to determine its destructive effects on an individual. Therefore we arrive at a conclusion which supports the protection against surveying private and intimate relationships of individuals in society.